Rope-knife.



H; A. BEASLEY.

- ROPE KNIFE; I

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18, 1908.

923,482.- B a-tented June 1,1909.

BEST AV ULA BLE' 7OPY EXTENT o nuou.

j No. 923,482.

a. citizen of the hunted-States, residing at m-ean' o studs 10.10. on, the Bartlettsville, in the county ofhl'asaington other i nher :a-L liu'til-Ztl in and adapted to ca and State of Oklahoma, have invented cermove lreelv in tl elongated slots 11. 11; in tein new and useful Improvements in liopethe linlts, wherelrv the operatien of the two knives, of which the following is a specitica members determinedbv the length of these tion. slots. 7

My invention relates to an improvement in in the mustrut-tion illustrated in Fig. 4, 55 1c rope knives, and the object of this invention the inclining surl'ares are dove-tailed tois, as the name implies, to provide an iniget'her. thus having pil1'tl a sliding eonneeproved means for cutting the lower end of'e- 'tion with each other. instead oldrop and wire rope or cable as closcas possible to the slide as in Fig. L'. rope socket, whereby the rope or cable may lfhile :n impro ed rope hnil'e may be To 15 be drawn out of the well preparator v t-o tish made entirely ol' steei it is perfectly feasible ing for tools. 7 to make it'ol' sol'ter metal in which event the My invention consists in a two-part tool, knives illustrated in Fig. 5 would be made of having; inclined adjacent faces slidahly consteel ands-seared at the sharp angula r edges nectedwith each other with an oriiice lengthti and 7. 75-, wise through the two-part. tool whereby the In operation. when it is desired to eat a sudden raising and lowering of the rope rope err-able. 1 il!i )l't) f't";i knil'eis mounted knife causes a severance of the rope due to upon thelatter at ti 2 surlaee. and lowered the sliding action of'one part upon the other. to the rope Sot'liet with the string ol' tools My invention l'urther c0nsists in certain above. "lhenv vhen the lmver section strikes so novel features of ct'ntstructlion and combinathe upperendot'theropesoelvet,saidsectionis tions of partswvhie-h will hereinafter be desuddenly stopped, andthe upper section eonscribed and pointed out in the clahns. tinnes on, and as the int-liningadjacent ends In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 come together, the upper section eontiiotes is aview ol one fornrol' the invention. Fig. on in a laterally shearing: action, tliereli) 85 -2 is a horizontalsection through the upper severing the eable. 11' not cut by this firstsection on line iii-1%. of Fig. '1. Fig. 3 is a operation, it is onlum-eessary to raise the similar view -on the line 13-13 of Fig. 1. tools a few int-hes. and again drop them, as Fig.4 shows another-possible form of the inmany timesas neeessaivto eat the rope or vention. Fig'. 5 is-a View showing the recable. In this way, I have provided a simple 90 movable knives. and effectual means for klt'tflllll llzilllllg the The numerals 1 and 2' represent the upper results desired by a tool ol this eharaeter. and lowenmembers or sect-ions oi the rope it is evident that other slight .ehang'es knife illustrated in Figs. 1, 2., and 3. flhese might be resorted to in the form and armembers are open on opposite sides as at I; rangeme'nt of the severalparts described 5:5 40 and '4, and as illustrated in l igs. l and 3 to without departing from the spirit and scope receive the rope or cable l. The adjacent of my invention, and. hence I do not wish to ends of these members i and Z are inclined as limit myseli' to the exact construction herein at 5, whereby thet'wo members upon coming set forth. butitogether have a shearing'action,- and the l-laz'ing fullvdeseribedmvinventton}what 1 sharp or acute angular formation at t) and T, I claim as new and tit sire to set-are by Letters constitute blades which ut the cable equally Patent, is:-- y from opposite sides toward toe center as he- 1 rope loiile comprising lu'o melnhers tween a pair of shears. The upper member having longitudinal grooves therethreugn to vuiththejars alnlo'tlwrtools above, is ol'sullireceive the cable to he cut. the members 105 cient, weight so that as arule a single drop constructed with inclined ends and adapted for a very limited distance is sullicient to to move diagonally with respect to each cause a complete severance of the rope or other. nhereh to sever-the cable. cable. 1.. -\r'ope lilliit rumpus-mg two members The membclsl and 2 are'eonnected tohaving alined grooves therethrough to ren gether by connecting rbds or links 8, 5, one ceive the cable to he cut. and rovidt-d with int-lining; adjacent ends adapted to have a UNITED HARV I llliiiSLEY. Uri

To (HZ 'ulzun' it m concern: 7

Be it known that I, llutvisr .l. Bntsuzi,

on each side as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, one

Specification of Losters Patent.

j Application filed September 18, 1902-. swarm.

' being e UK'LAHUM I Patented Tuned; 1969."

'er end fea e-h liilliii; ower St-($1011, 2 by sliding and shearing m-iion when the members come violently together \t'hleh remit: m the severami'e ol' the euhie.

3. A rope knife comprising twoiuemhers' hrving int-lining mljneent end's which cause the sections to more t-ransyerseiy in opposite" directions when nhutting eazeh othei and means for limiting the movement of saitt sections with respect to enehot her.

4-. A re )e knife emnprisine .t-wu members having ine ining adjacent ends, ezu'h member constructed arid adapted to receive a rope or able to he severett, and links having a liHHlOti sthting' emmeetion with one member an i seemed to the nummember, whereby 1-5 to pen-amt the members to have a limited movement with respect to each other.

- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presenee of two witnesses.

JIARYEY A. BEASLEY.

\t'itnesses;

1i 7 1113011), Jr., J. RlsLl-n. 

